Edfu Temple Reconstruction Part Three

First Pylon at Edfu Temple.

I’m often asked about the meticulous level of detail in my temple reconstructions and the answer is s a combination of observational drawing and photography.

One of the most useful methods is to take multiple photos of an object with each photo focusing in on a small part and then stitching all the separate photos together to make one fine detailed super high quality image.

I use the Photomerge option in Photoshop CS3 to achieve this and as you can see from the photo above, which shows the details of one of the pylons at Edfu temple, the results are impressive.

(The image above is made up of nine seperate photos however, it is a low quality jpg so that it will download quickly and the original is clearer and shaper).

Ok so you might ask ‘I can’t afford Photoshop and I want to make my own high quality photos’. Well there’s another option – use the free Autostitch software to do it for you. You can download it here: -
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
Autostitch only accepts JPEG images so it has limitations but it’s free.

The trick is to hold you camera and yourself steady, make sure you have at least a third overlap in each picture and photograph static objects or landscapes – for example a windy day with the sun quickly going in and out of the clouds and people moving about will not produce good results.

Using Autostitch


The result


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